BRAHMA, N. He Who Created The Hindoos, Who Are Preserved By Vishnu And Destroyed By Siva -- A Rather Neater Division Of Labor Than Is Found Among The Deities Of Some Other Nations.

BRAHMA, N. He Who Created The Hindoos, Who Are Preserved By Vishnu And Destroyed By Siva -- A Rather Neater Division Of Labor Than Is Found Among The Deities Of Some Other Nations.

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BRAHMA, n. He who created the Hindoos, who are preserved by Vishnu
and destroyed by Siva -- a rather neater division of labor than is
found among the deities of some other nations. The Abracadabranese,
for example, are created by Sin, maintained by Theft and destroyed by
Folly. The priests of Brahma, like those of Abracadabranese, are holy
and learned men who are never naughty.

O Brahma, thou rare old Divinity,
First Person of the Hindoo Trinity,
You sit there so calm and securely,
With feet folded up so demurely --
You're the First Person Singular, surely.
Polydore Smith
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

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SOPHISTRY, n. The controversial method of an opponent, distinguished from one's own by superior insincerity and fooling.
This method is that of the later Sophists, a Grecian sect of philosophers who began by teaching wisdom, prudence, science, art and, in brief, whatever men ought to know, but lost themselves in a maze of quibbles and a fog of words....
FOOL, n. A person who pervades the domain of intellectual speculation and diffuses himself through the channels of moral activity.
He is omnific, omniform, omnipercipient, omniscience, omnipotent....
Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
RIGHT, n. Legitimate authority to be, to do or to have
as the right to be a king, the right to do one's neighbor, the right to have measles, and the like....
FLESH, n. The Second Person of the secular Trinity. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
IMMIGRANT, n. An unenlightened person who thinks one country better than another.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
COENOBITE, n. A man who piously shuts himself up to meditate upon the sin of wickedne
and to keep it fresh in his mind joins a brotherhood of awful examples....